Archive for the ‘Explore and Play’ Category
Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City
Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries, Videos on March 12th, 2009
Zeb Hogan, of the University of Nevada in Reno, is documenting the rays as part of the Megafishes Project, an effort to document Earth’s 20 or so freshwater giants. watch as he searches for a Giant Stingray in Thailand and gets more than he could even imagine.
The Science of Cute
Popular Science has a channel on YouTube where they do a series on “The Science of YouTube”. This video explains the evolutionary basis for our love of cute animals like the ones that seem to be in popular videos online.
Click here to see what else the Popular Science YouTube channel has to offer.
83 Pics of Zoo Babies from Around the World. Cute!
Molly, a 5-foot newborn giraffe, from Southwick's Zoo - Photo courtesy of Tufts University
Follow the link to Boston.com to find SO MANY really cute animal babies. Let us know which are your favorites!
Mass Extinction Timeline
Posted by: Avi in Explore and Play on March 1st, 2009
Check out this interactive timeline by the Discovery Channel online of some of the major extinctions that have occurred from the beginning of life on earth. It explains what is known about some of the major extinctions and shows what percentage of all species died off.
2009 – The Year of Darwin
Posted by: Avi in Explore and Play on January 31st, 2009
Charles Darwin was born on February 4th of 1809. That would make him 200 years old this year if here were still alive!
But that isn’t the only Darwin related anniversary we get to celebrate in 2009. He also published his “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, making 2009 also the 150 year anniversary of that important book on the theory of evolution.
